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Egypt’s tuition fees shock

Postgraduate Students and applicants for Egypt’s universities report sudden and unexplained increases in tuition fees – in some cases triple those of the previous academic year. Sara Mahmoud, a pharmacist at Tanta University, told news agency Al Fanar annual fees for her course jumped from 11,000 Egyptian pounds last year to 36,000.